M (F)
You will need your English Workshop book and your white binder today.
1. Make quiz corrections. Due at end of class.
2. Continue to work on combining sentences (pp. 69-72).
Revise one of your Summer Reading assignments to correct all sentence fragments, run-ons, and sentences. Combine sentences to eliminate wordiness wherever possible. Use standard proofreader's marks. Finish for homework if needed.
Double period: Work in learning teams. Note: Training specialists to create study sheets for grammar review and "plus point" vocabulary.
Reminder: Bring your independent reading books tomorrow.
T (A)
You will need your composition notebook, your white binder, and your independent reading book today.
Independent Reading Update: Twitterboard: Write a "tweet" in 140 characters that expresses the "big idea" of the book you are currently reading. You must include the book's title and the "hashtag" for your class. Note: Your twitter "handle" should be a twist on your name. Your name/handle does not count in your 140 characters, but your spaces and punctuation do count. Use what we have reviewed about sentences to compose a strong, grammatical sentence with appropriate punctuation.
Example:
@suludavis: Learning how to time travel and communicate with ghosts may prove too stressful for Kerstin Gier's RUBY RED in the end. #stmesla6
= 127 characters
Add your "tweet" to the class "Twitterboard"
W (B)
You will need your completed "tweet" (in composition notebook) and your Wordskills book
Have your "tweet" checked by two other people
Look for specific, concrete detail
Look for name, title, and hashtag
Check character count
Review sentences for completeness, punctuation
Punch holes in top and bottom; add to "twitterboard"
Wordskills, Unit 1
Th (C) Wordskills, Unit 1 Finish pp. 18-20 for homework if you did not complete this in class.
F (D) Wordskills, Unit 1
Week 6 (Sept. 24-28)
M (E)
You will need your Wordksills book.
Reminders: If you have not completed your sentence "tweet," please take care of this TODAY. This counts as a quiz grade.
Vocabulary review sheet (work in "jigsaw" groups)
Double Period: Learning Teams
HW: Study for vocabulary quiz (Unit 1, Bonus words)
Th (B)
Review ways to combine sentences (worksheet); do "Chapter Review" for Chapter 7 in English Workbook (pp. 71-72) in class, individually, for quiz grade. Collect.
F (C)
Read Frost’s "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and write a reaction to it in your composition notebook.
What is happening in Frost's poem? What do you like about the poem? What do you dislike about the poem? What questions do you have?
What pictures does the poem paint for you in your mind? Which other senses are invoked by the poem? What do you think the poem means?
If you were to write your own poem in response to Frost's, what would your poem look like, sound like? (Feel free to write that poem if you wish.)
M (F)
You will need your English Workshop book and your white binder today.
1. Make quiz corrections. Due at end of class.
2. Continue to work on combining sentences (pp. 69-72).
Revise one of your Summer Reading assignments to correct all sentence fragments, run-ons, and sentences. Combine sentences to eliminate wordiness wherever possible. Use standard proofreader's marks. Finish for homework if needed.
Double period: Work in learning teams. Note: Training specialists to create study sheets for grammar review and "plus point" vocabulary.
Reminder: Bring your independent reading books tomorrow.
T (A)
You will need your composition notebook, your white binder, and your independent reading book today.
Independent Reading Update: Twitterboard: Write a "tweet" in 140 characters that expresses the "big idea" of the book you are currently reading. You must include the book's title and the "hashtag" for your class. Note: Your twitter "handle" should be a twist on your name. Your name/handle does not count in your 140 characters, but your spaces and punctuation do count. Use what we have reviewed about sentences to compose a strong, grammatical sentence with appropriate punctuation.
Example:
@suludavis: Learning how to time travel and communicate with ghosts may prove too stressful for Kerstin Gier's RUBY RED in the end. #stmesla6
= 127 characters
Add your "tweet" to the class "Twitterboard"
W (B)
You will need your completed "tweet" (in composition notebook) and your Wordskills book
Have your "tweet" checked by two other people
Look for specific, concrete detail
Look for name, title, and hashtag
Check character count
Review sentences for completeness, punctuation
Punch holes in top and bottom; add to "twitterboard"
Wordskills, Unit 1
Th (C)
Wordskills, Unit 1
Finish pp. 18-20 for homework if you did not complete this in class.
F (D)
Wordskills, Unit 1
Week 6 (Sept. 24-28)
M (E)
You will need your Wordksills book.
Reminders: If you have not completed your sentence "tweet," please take care of this TODAY. This counts as a quiz grade.
Vocabulary review sheet (work in "jigsaw" groups)
Double Period: Learning Teams
HW: Study for vocabulary quiz (Unit 1, Bonus words)
Davis's Bonus Words Video: perseverance, voraciously, artifact, apprentice, caret, collage, infraction, commendation
T (F)
Vocabulary quiz, Unit 1
Double Period: Independent Reading
W (A)
Introduction to Love That Dog; William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow"
William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow"
Th (B)
Review ways to combine sentences (worksheet); do "Chapter Review" for Chapter 7 in English Workbook (pp. 71-72) in class, individually, for quiz grade. Collect.
F (C)
Read Frost’s "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and write a reaction to it in your composition notebook.
Discuss and share reactions.